Meaning

4 senses
  1. One who reaps; a person employed to harvest crops from the fields by reaping.

    Schnitter, Mäher, Mähder

    жнецžnec

    someone who helps to gather the harvest

  2. A machine used to harvest crops.

  3. A recluse spider (Loxosceles and Sicarius spp.).

  4. (India, obsolete)Each of the small laths laid across the rafters of a sloping roof to bear the tiles.

Examples

8 sentences
  1. The grim reaper has the maximum body count.

  2. We must prepare the reapers, not only to cut down the tares of today, but to reap the wheat of tomorrow.

  3. We got some Carolina Reaper seeds.

  4. Ziri's Halloween costume reminded Rima of the Grim Reaper.

  5. The Grim Reaper slowly extended his right arm towards Yanni.

    ruМрачный Жнец медленно протянул правую руку к Янни. — Setup

Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
one who reaps:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
one who reaps:

Origin

From Middle English reper, repare, repere, *riper (the last, attested only in surnames Ryp

From Middle English reper, repare, repere, *riper (the last, attested only in surnames Ryper, Riper, etc.), from Old English rīpere (“reaper”), equivalent to reap + -er.

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Forms

plural: reapers
Singularreaper
Pluralreapers

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • farm machine that gathers a food crop from the fields:harvester
  • Death personified as an old man or a skeleton with a scythe:Grim Reaper
  • someone who helps to gather the harvest:harvester

Word family

2 related words
RelatedreapC1

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
reaper — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto